NewsMid-Atlantic Arts Announces Two Virginia “Walking Together” Grantees
The US Regional Arts Organizations (USRAO) today announced the grant recipients of Walking Together: Investing in Folklife in Communities of Color. A total of $3.34 million has been awarded to 96 grantees. Fifty-six …
EventRecording, Writing, and Sharing Your Stories
The Practice of Oral Histories and Veteran Writing Projects – Join Katy Clune and Michael Lund to learn more about the techniques of oral histories and reflective storytelling and receive practical tips and tricks for how to engage in these practices.
Sights & Sounds“Textile Origin Stories” at the Richmond Folk Festival
Omilade Janine Bell, founder of Richmond’s Elegba Folklore Society, believes in the profound role of textile arts in helping people reconnect with their cultural heritage.
Sights & SoundsPartnership Power: Elegba Folklore Society & Virginia Folklife
While annual funding may limit the number of Apprenticeship Program awards we can offer, there is one tactic with near-boundless potential: partnerships.
Sights & SoundsDena Jennings & Samaria Marley
Dena Jennings and her apprentice Samaria Marley have much more in common than their interest in building gourd banjos.
Sights & SoundsFred Motley & Karen Williamson
This 2023–2024 Folklife Apprenticeship duo shares a love for collecting stories from people in their community and preserving them for posterity.
Sights & Sounds‘From Generation to Generation’: Reedville Fishermen’s Museum
By intertwining Virginia Folklife Program archival materials from Reedville with present-day voices, we hope to give insight into the past and future of this beloved community museum.
Sights & SoundsBernadette “B.J.” Lark and Alanjha Harris
As a mentor artist in our Apprenticeship Program, B.J. Lark of Roanoke, Virginia, has spent the last year teaching 18-year-old Alanjha Harris the soul-stirring power of Gullah Geechee-style gospel singing.
Sights & SoundsJoshua Purnell & Tom Norris
For dancer Joshua Purnell and his apprentice Tom Norris, blues dancing is a means to build and maintain community in their hometown of Norfolk.
Sights & SoundsMargarita “Tata” Sanchez Cepeda y Isha M Renta Lopez (Español)
La Bomba La bomba, como dice Margarita “Tata” Sánchez Cepeda, es «todo sobre el amor. Me enseñaron bajo el amor, la bomba es una expresión del amor, y seguimos llevando …
Sights & SoundsMargarita “Tata” Sanchez Cepeda & Isha M Renta Lopez
Bomba Dance Bomba is, as Margarita “Tata” Sanchez Cepeda puts it, “all about love. I was taught under love, bomba is a form of love, and we continue to carry …
Event“In Good Keeping in 2022” Carysbrook Screening
The Virginia Folklife Program invites you to the Carysbrook Performing Arts Center in Fork Union (Carysbrook) for its third screening of In Good Keeping in 2022. This original, feature-length documentary film …
